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IT sounds like we can stop worrying about Farrah Fawcett. The glamorous but sometimes troubled star has her act together right now and has been all over town this past week. She did a David Letterman show (remember how her first appearance there started all those nasty rumors?), and it went so well that I hear she’s been booked for a third “Late Night” appearance.

Farrah’s adoring public can get a glimpse of her in the flesh Tuesday night at the premier of Robert Altman’s movie “Dr. T and the Women” at the Ziegfeld on West 54th and at the after-party at the New York Public Library. She’s one of the featured players in an ensemble cast headed by Richard Gere – who has been getting rave reviews for his performance as a gyno who really likes his patients.

The evening will also feature an emotional reunion between Farrah and her former co-star on TV’s “Charlie’s Angels” Cheryl Ladd. They are both looking forward to the upcoming movie version of that hit series, even if the new “Angels” have been allowed to do naughty things the network censors never let them get away with.

The glitzy premiere is unusual for director Altman, but this is considered one of his most commercial movies ever. The women in the film – including Helen Hunt, Liv Tyler, Kate Hudson, Laura Dern and Janine Turner – will be decked out in Escada gowns and Harry Winston jewelry.

The newly mellow Gere will be at the premiere and party to greet guests like Glenn Close, “Oz” star Chuck Zito, Amy Irving, Regis and Joy Philbin, Cheri Kaufman and media guru Richard Torrenzano.

Hardball question for Hill

IF Rick Lazio wants to totally flummox Hillary Rodham Clinton at the opening of this morning’s debate, he needs only to ask her the question she must be dreading: As a self-proclaimed Yankee fan, do you think NBC in New York should have shown the presidential debate or the first game between the Bombers and the A’s the other night?

All her liberal supporters have been bashing the NBC flagship station for its decision, but true Yankee supporters were grateful for the chance to see the playoff game on broadcast TV. Lazio should put her on the spot: Are you a real New Yorker or a Washington wonk who thinks politics matters more than the home team locked in a life-or-death struggle?

Clintons’ silver night

MEANWHILE, the Clintons will, I understand, celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary Wednesday night with an intimate late dinner at Le Cirque, after they’ve completed the day’s round of fund-raisers. I haven’t got hold of the small list of invitees yet, but I’m told it will be just “old friends.” The way Bill and Hill have used people over the years, it will be fascinating to see whom they consider friends as opposed to fixers and funders.

Kicked off the team

I AM immensely heartened to learn that Richard Harris,-2> that fine actor who has staged some or his greatest performances in Manhattan’s Irish pubs, has just celebrated his 70th birthday. The party was at Dublin Castle, and Richard quoted the old joke to the effect that if he’d known he was going to live this long, he’d have taken better care of himself.

One of the well-wishers was fellow thespian John Hurt. -2>Harris told Hurt he’s having trouble with his local sporting club, Munster, which has banned him from their football games because they always lose when he attends. It seems that Harris was sitting in his car outside the stadium recently, and when Munster was up 9-0 at halftime, persuaded the management to let him in. The team went on to lose 10-9, and Richard is out in the cold again.

Speaking of wild and brilliant Irish actors, Harris contemporary Peter O’Toole -2>is at last in talks to bring his West End tour de force “Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell” to Broadway. This is a hilarious monologue based on the writings of a popular London columnist, a gentlemanly sort who cleverly pretended to be a womanizing bookie-welching tosspot who occasionally couldn’t see his typewriter keys.

Concerned voice

THE many fans of Abe Rosenthal, who miss him sorely since he vanished into the twilight zone of the Daily News, are honoring the old Timesman Tuesday night at the Roosevelt Hotel. Abe, who’ll have proud wife Shirley Lord by his side, is getting a Human Rights Voice award from Concern Worldwide. Barbara Walters is presenting the award to her old media buddy, and James Earl Jones, a concerned voice if I ever heard one, is the emcee for the heavyweight dinner.

New digs for Duff

WHATEVER the outcome of Patricia Duff’s vicious child-custody battle with Ron Perelman over daughter Caleigh, the litigious blonde apparently knows where she’ll be living in the future. This week’s New York magazine reports that Duff recently signed a contract to purchase a $3.95 million townhouse in the 80s between First and York. “The house is gorgeous,” according to broker Anne Snee, who handled the property the last time it was sold. “It has a double-height living room with a glass wall looking over the garden.”